Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
Which shaketh the earth ... pillar's thereof tremble. The earth is regarded, poetically, as resting on pillars, which tremble in an earthquake. "The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it" (Psalms 75:3); "The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard," etc. (Isaiah 24:20). The literal truth as to the earth is given at 26:7 - "He hangeth the earth upon nothing."